Expected to jump on the OB bandwagon: Venture capitalist Alan Patricof
, former DNC finance chief Maureen White
(and wife of financier Steve Rattner
), and investment banker Hassan Nemazee. But not all of Hill's supporters are planning to join the effort. Some high-profile backers who are still in mourning have been hestitant to jump to Obama or, even worse, help out the DNC and Howard Dean. Clinton mega-supporter Susie Tompkins Buell, the founder of Esprit, remains on the fence, as does Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a major Dem fundraiser, entrepreneur and heir. As for relentless Clinton loyalist Lanny Davis, he might have the chutzpah to ask Plouffe to sign his Hillary-for-VP petition
.